Once upon a time the FMV was all the rage in video games, especially back on PC in the '90s. Well, it's having something of a comeback on Switch. First, there's the recently released The Bunker, and now Japanese handheld owners are getting another live-action romp in the form of horror outing, Closed Nightmare...

Publisher Degica has confirmed Spacewave Sofware's competitive shmup title Rival Megagun will be arriving on Nintendo Switch alongside the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions at the end of 2018. The split-screen battler takes the classic top-down shmup template and adds a few neat competitive twists.
The coolest feature is the ability...

If all the signs are to be believed, the Football Manager series is finally going to walk out onto the field known as Nintendo Switch. A recent listing on a Korean retailer first broke the news, then franchise director Miles Jacobson took to Twitter to make an Eric Cantona-esque cryptic tweet.
Now, according to a source close to...

As recently as last month, Square Enix made it very clear that the Nintendo Switch iteration of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was going to release much later than the PC and PS4 versions (which are slated for release this September). Well, turns out progress on the handheld port has hit a few more...

Last week we reported on how FromSoftware and Chinese studio Virtuos had reportedly managed to wrestle Blighttown - a notorious location in Dark Souls, known for its brutal boss fights and crippling frame rate issues - to a stable 30fps on Nintendo Switch.
Well, PAX East has come and gone, and now we have some actual footage to...

Death Road To Canada has been on our radar for a while, with its top-down mixture of roguelike survival and zombie-filled streets, and now developer Rocketcat Games has confirmed the pixel-happy title is headed to the Nintendo Switch eShop on 25th April. The game will be available for $14.99, €14.99, £11.99 with a 20% launch discount...

Another day and another mobile port making its way to the Nintendo Switch eShop. And while we can see you rolling your eyes at the screen from here, we're actually quite excited for this one. Kenshō, from Finnish studios FIFTYTWO and Jetdogs Oy, combines colour-matching elements with a striking visual style that shifts and changes...

Developer DoubleMoose - a studio featuring Armin Ibrisagic, one of the devs who brought you practical joke turned actual gaming hit, Goat Simulator - has announced its upcoming physics-based adventure game Animal Super Squad is coming to Nintendo Switch.
The game is the first...

PikuNiku first came to our attention back in August 2017, with its bizarre and beguiling mix of platforming, puzzles and oddball humour. It was pegged with a 2018 release date, and while that vague window hasn't been made any more specific, developer Sectordub and publisher Devolver Digital hope to ease the wait with a brand...

Nintendo Switch has plenty of exciting titles headed its way in 2018, including a flurry of new racers looking to give Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a run for its racing money. That includes the gravity-defying action of GRIP, which is due to burn rubber and level buildings later this year.
YouTuber duo The Nintendo Power Couple was able to...

There’s something to be said for a game with a simple concept. A piece of software that knows what it does, does that thing well and never tries to be anything else. It’s both a comforting constant and a reminder of just how grander and deeper said game could be if it mixed its recipe up a little bit more.
It’s...

While it's been a relatively quiet week for the games industry (and the month as a whole, compared to the fanfare that saw Nintendo Switch's launch a year ago), we did some activity on the Nintendo Switch front. The multiformat monster that is FIFA 18 continued a strong run with another week at number two, although Mario...

Take one glance at the Nintendo Switch eShop and you’ll see it awash with mobile ports. Some of these titles - such as the recently reviewed Warp Shift from Fishlabs - work well whether they’re on a smartphone screen or a handheld console, but then there are some that are so well suited to Switch it’s a wonder they...

Nintendo Switch has proved itself to be an ideal home for all manner of genres - be they twitch-platformers with many a throwback mechanic or asymmetric multiplayer games with couchplay firmly in mind - but none feel more suited than the ingeniously designed puzzler. Warp Shift - the latest offering from German studio...

The weekend is finally here, so it's time to grab a few precious moments of free time and fire up your favourite Nintendo console for a little R&R. This week, Team Nintendo Life are playing action-RPGs, cutesy detective sims, virtual pinball tables, retro shmups, horror romps and, of course, Splatoon 2. As...

With a lack of Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo Switch at the moment, alternative brawlers such as Brawlout have helped fill that over-the-top fighting action void in our hearts. Developer Angry Mob Games is still hard at work supporting the title, and it's just submitted its latest patch to Nintendo for...

While we don't know exactly when Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus will arrive on Nintendo Switch, we know that developer Panic Button is hard at work fitting the 2017 shooter onto the plucky little portable console. And with Bethesda offering hands-on previews of the game at PAX East this week, we've finally got our...

There's no shortage of headsets out there that work with Nintendo Switch - such as the SteelSeries Arctis 3 Bluetooth - but there aren't many that are a) Nintendo-themed and - more important - b) officially licensed. Well, audio tech firm Astro has teamed up with the big N to fill that gap with a range of cool speaker tags and...

2018 is already shaping up to be a very good second year for Nintendo Switch, with the likes of Shovel Knight: King Of Cards making their way onto the eShop in the coming months. The final campaign in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove saga casts you as King Knight, the gilded goon himself, in what promises to be a fine end to Yacht Club...

If you're in the market for a new four-player multiplayer game that combines three of your favourtie things - breakast food items, exorcisms and Breakout-style gameplay - then we've got just the thing. Say hello to Breakforcist Battle, in all its hyper-cute glory.
Coming from two-person dev team Lucid Sheep...

Spyro: Reignited Trilogy - the much-rumoured and obsessively campaigned for remaster of the original Spyro The Dragon games - was finally announced yesterday. However, the lack of Nintendo Switch left a lot of people (Team Nintendo Life, included) feeling a tad left out. Well, a listing that appeared on Nintendo's official UK store mere...

Well, we didn't see that coming. Apparently, there's a remaster of the original Spyro The Dragon PS1 trilogy coming in September. I mean, it's not as if there were weeks of rumours, leaks and purple eggs mailed to games journos around the world.
Okay, perhaps we're a tad bitter that Spyro: Reignited Trilogy - which has been...

Jungle-based arcade shooter/platformer Toki - which saw hit arcades in 1989 before arriving on consoles such as SEGA Mega Drive in the years that followed - is getting a brand new remake. According to developer/publisher Microïds, the game is set to arrive by the end of 2018.
Since it's almost 30 years since the original version...